French-styled student strikes in francophone Africa – Daphne Ntiri – Burkina Faso 2015
It was my second time experiencing a student strike just at the beginning of the semester when I was supposed to start teaching. My very first experience with student strikes was at the University of Djibouti and this strike lasted for a couple of weeks and it came to an end with the intervention of […]
Ah ha!: Recognizing cultural variability – Ruth Stotter – Thailand 2016
The first night I was at Mahasarakham University in northern Thailand, members of the Western Languages and Linguistics Department faculty took me to a restaurant. We sat around a large table with platters of artfully arranged and delicious looking food in the center. Waiters put food on our plates. No one moved. Everyone was looking at me — and […]
In Madrid – Jenny Cascino – Spain 2017
In Madrid, the light respires millenary breaths upon terracotta facades it dances carrying earth paints a stable glaze of aspiration and crianza upon the souls of passersby who move along as if carried upon a hedonistic puff of cigarette smoke by whose subtle and sultry perfection I am transfixed. In Madrid, clouds and […]
Lasting Friendships – Diane Quantic – Bulgaria 1986
Maria Mitreva, daughter of my colleague in Bulgaria, came to live with us when she was 16. She graduated from Friends University where my husband Bruce was a professor. She stayed in Wichita, married and began a career with CCH, a company that writes tax software. Her mother joins her a part of each year. […]
Being in the Middle of the Opening of the Berlin Wall – John Austin Murphy – Germany 1989
While on a Fulbright research assignment at the Free University of Berlin in 1989-90, I connected with East German demonstrators and officials as well as with researchers from both Germanies and Hungary. I learned to dance in East Berlin discos, as well as later on the streets of West Berlin when the Berlin Wall opened […]
Blood Diamonds: Before and After Sierra Leone’s Civil War – Susan Ruel – Sierra Leone 1978
My Fulbright year in Sierra Leone made an incalculably significant impact on my life. When I left in 1979, I saw no hint that a vicious civil war would break out there just over a decade later. On arrival in 1978 as one of a tiny group of “pothos” (whites) in country, I felt such […]
Strong Heart Of Glass – Michael Janis – United Kingdom 2012
The University of Sunderland is home to the National Glass Centre in the UK, as well as the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG). As a glass artist, this was exactly where I wanted to do my Fulbright Fellowship. Artist and studio mate Tim Tate was also a recipient of a Fulbright Specialist award, […]
Sleuthing in Russian Emigré Paris – Aliss Valerie Terrell – France 1971
In 1971, I got a Fulbright to enroll at the Sorbonne and research Alexei Remizov, modernist author who emigrated from Revolutionary Petrograd to Paris and died there in 1957. My application promised a photographic essay on “Remizov’s Paris.” So, I lugged my Pentax reflex to all the places he mentioned in his writing. I needed […]